Brewing Storm - Chapter 168

Luciana paled when she heard the finality in the Serpentine Queen’s voice. At this moment, even someone as stubborn and willful as her sensed the impossibility of her wish.

As long as the Serpentine Queen was alive, she’d never allow her to remain by the Werewolf King’s side.

While she wallowed in despair, the Master Wolf was trembling in shock.

Banned from the Crimson Palace?

She would ban him, Master Ouyang, the wolf that trained and raised the Werewolf King, from the Crimson Palace?

How audacious!

“Ramose, Ramose…do you hear what this serpentine is saying? She’s threatening to ban me from the Crimson Palace!” The brown wolf turned to the Werewolf King for support only to find the beast dazedly holding his cheek as he absentmindedly stared at the Serpentine Queen.

The flaming Nar! The Werewolf King wasn’t in his senses. He was ensnared and polluted by the venom of the serpentine. How was he going to support him?

No, I have to rescue Ramose from the vicious poison of this serpentine!

Eyes flashing with determination, the brown wolf lunged towards the Serpentine Queen.

Versailles wasn’t expecting to suddenly be under assault. She instinctively clenched her fist and a flame arrow appeared in her hand.

Just when the brown wolf was about to collide with her, a hand emerged from behind her and smacked the wolf away.

Bang!

The wolf crashed heavily onto the ground. His body rolled twice before coming to a stop. Baffled and confused at the sudden attack, he raised his head, and in the next heartbeat, his brown eyes widened in disbelief.

“Ra…Ramose…?” He couldn’t believe the one to attack him was Ramose himself! The wolf he trained and raised, loved like his own flesh and blood.

“Why?” Blood leaked from the corner of his mouth as he soullessly asked with vacant eyes.

Luciana trembled and stepped back.

For the Serpentine Queen, the Werewolf King dared to hit the Master Wolf! Would he spare her?

Ramose retracted his hand and turned to his mate. Grabbing her arm, he pulled her close and checked her for injuries. Only when he found none did he breathe in relief.

“Sigh. It’s great you’re not hurt.” His lips curled up in a tender arc as he cupped her cheek and pressed his forehead against hers.

This endearing scene pricked the brown wolf’s eyes and stabbed his heart.

Obviously, he was the injured one!

“Ramose, you hit me for a female that only entered your life 14 ice nights ago? A female that has only been in the Underworld Palace 7 ice nights?”

“Not a female. My mate. My Queen. You dare to attack my mate before my eyes? You dare to raise your hand on my Queen? Have the years of affection we shared diluted your senses? How could you think I’d stay still after you brazenly attacked her?” What a joke!

He’d barely got himself together after a vicious attempt on her life was made within his presence.

Now the brown wolf dared to attack her within his presence as well? Did they all consider him, this mate, dead?

Recalling his impulsive and reckless action, Master Ouyang bowed his head in embarrassment.

He indeed didn’t have the right to attack the Serpentine Queen. Whether he liked it or not, she was the Queen of the Underworld Palace. And as the mate of the Werewolf King, her status and prestige were second only to the Werewolf King.

So behaving in such a way towards her was akin to openly asking for a beating!

But the Master Wolf had lived for 18 years showered with Ramose’s love and respect.

How could he possibly tolerate that same love and respect being showered on another beast? That too, the vicious serpentine poisoning his and Ramose’s relationship?

“Ramose, she said she was going to ban me from the Crimson Palace! How long have I lived? When has any beast ever dared to speak in such a tone with me before?”

“If no beast ever spoke in such a tone with you before, then one did it right now. What’s the big deal?”

“Ramose, you don’t think this is a big deal? Don’t you get it? She’s threatening to ban me from entering the Crimson Palace!” He clearly spoke loud and coherent, so why was Ramose so calm even after hearing him?

“She said she would ban you if you tried to forcefully keep Luciana in the Crimson Palace. Don’t force it and you’ll be good. End of the issue.”

“You…It doesn’t matter to you that she threatened me?” He repeated in stunned disbelief.

Ramose enveloped his mate in his arms and lifted his head.

“My mate is very clear about her likes and dislikes. She doesn’t like Luciana and doesn’t want to see her. If the Queen of the Underworld Palace doesn’t like her, then what can I do about it? I can’t fight with my Queen for an unrelated beast, can I? As such, we dismissed her.”

Sighing resignedly, Ramose coldly looked at the brown wolf.

“Master Ouyang, when me and my mate, the masters of the Crimson Palace, clearly don’t want the beast anywhere near us, why are you trying to force her on us? With what right are you forcing us to keep her around?”

The Master Wolf blinked in a daze. These words were more painful than the smack he received.

Because these drew a line…

“You must understand. The Crimson Palace isn’t mine alone anymore. My mate has equal and indisputable right on every matter and affair relating to it. The matter of sending bedmates, you shouldn’t have mentioned it at all.”

“But Kings receiving bedmates is a tradition of the Underworld Palace! What wrong did I do in trying to follow tradition?”

“But my mate won’t tolerate me with another female and neither do I have the desire to be with anyone other than my Queen. So the Underworld Palace’s so-called tradition is cumbersome and meaningless.” He lowered his head and tenderly stroked his Queen’s cheek.

“For me, my mate is enough. Because I have only one heart and that heart, I already gave it to her.” If it were any other day, Ramose would’ve felt bad for lashing out at the Master Wolf.

But today wasn’t one of those days. Because the wolf had dared to attack his mate.

“Master Ouyang, Versailles has made herself very clear. I support her in her decision. Take the Gold Blood away. Don’t try to bring her into the Crimson Palace again. My mate won’t like it and I won’t like what my mate doesn’t like.”

By now, Master Ouyang’s heart had been crushed and shattered beyond repair. The wolf he raised and loved, hit him and drew a line in their relationship.

He neither gave him face for his past teachings nor apologized for his actions for the sake of past affections.

In the Werewolf King’s eyes, the Serpentine Queen was everything.

With a heavy heart and dark eyes, the Master Wolf struggled to his feet and gave the serpentine one final vicious glare, and turned.

“Luciana, let’s go. There’s no place for us in this Crimson Palace anymore.” With a hollow sigh, he staggered past the beast.

“But…” Luciana bit her lips.

She was reluctant to leave. If she left this time, then how would she return to the Crimson Palace later?

Versailles raised her head from her mate’s embrace and glanced at the hesitant Gold Blood.

“Luciana, I’d advise you to treasure that which you have, instead of longing for that which can never be yours. Remember your life before entering the Underworld Palace. Compared to then, how much better are you living now? Who gave you such a comfortable life? If you don’t mend your ways and fix your sight on that which is before you, then I promise you that going forward, your life is going to be ten times more wretched than before you entered the Werewolf Clan. Get lost!”

With a cold scoff, she turned her back on the beast. If it wasn’t for Olsen, she wouldn’t have even spared the female a second glance, let alone waste her breath.

Luciana felt as if she’d been splashed with a basin of ice water.

Life before the Underworld Palace…?

That was a nightmare she never wished to recall!

Flustered and filled with trepidation, the Gold Blood turned and chased after the brown wolf.

“Hmm. My mate is excellent in showing delusional females their place.” Ramose tightened his grip on her waist and inhaled her fruity fragrance.

Versailles allowed him to indulge for a bit. The wolf had risen his hand on the one who raised him for her. Her heart overflowed with the warmth and sense of security she found in his embrace.

With Ramose beside her, she could make anyplace her home.

“Light, you kissed one cheek but forgot the other. It is jealous now. What do we do?” The wolf was still reminiscing the chaste kiss on the cheek he received.

Compared to the many kisses they shared, this one could be considered bland and lackluster.

However, it was the first kiss his mate had given him on the cheek.

It carried a sweetness and tenderness that melted his heart.

Now he wanted one on the other cheek as well….